Autocad V10 (DOS) in XP PRO: FATAL ERROR DISK FULL

[LABAY]

Running ACAD in XP PRO Command Line Prompt
When I run ACAD.EXE, I get opening screen. When I select new or rev dwg, I get FATAL ERROR: C: DISK FULL.

Used to work in 95 and 98.

I have all ACAD files.

I think I'm missing needed path command or sys file.

Any suggestions?

-LAB

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi LABRAY,

Hmmm... By any chance were the disk partitions in 95 and 98 FAT - I'm sure in XP it's going to be NTFS which may be your problem. Any chance you can create a dual boot?

HTH
Todd

 

[LABAY]

Thanks for the tip. Yes, I did go to NTFS. Probably what's causing the problem.

When you suggest dual boot, are you saying I re-install W98 and run it in that mode?

-Larry

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi LABAY,

Not sure if its possible but maybe throw your old hard-drive into the new machine - I don't know if you can create a FAT partition on an NTFS or not (IT/IS really isn't my thing). But either way I think you'll need to be able to boot up in either XP or 98 - you might get away with turning the old hard-drive into a slave and just booting in XP and running AutoCAD off the old hard-drive through XP - but I think all the memory and disk operations are going to want NTFS?

HTH
Todd

 

[LABAY]

Thanks for the info. I'm about to add a slave HD and may do just what you said.

My reason for all of this is to use an Autocad feature I really liked: Calculating the area of odd shapes. I tried VISIO and it is terrible for that.

If I could find another program to do that, I'd go for it.

Thanks

-Larry